Followup Summary: PHP with LDAP support, as a package

Hello,

    I wanted to give folks an update that Steve of Sunfreeware has created 
packages for testing of PHP with LDAP support in the sparc/8 directory of 
sunfreeware.com.  You'll need apache (I'm using 2.0.X), openldap-2.3.11 
and php-5.0.5 packages along with their dependencies.

    At the moment the sasl2 libraries have been bundled with the php-5.0.5 
package, but Steve has said that he plans to abstract sasl2 into it's own 
package and remove sasl2 from the php package.


    Thanks to Steve for being willing to create these packages for us, and 
for doing it so quickly.  We're testing some development of PHP/LDAP 
functions for common operations here, and things are going very well thus 
far.



- Ivan Fetch.


On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Ivan Fetch wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>   Thank you to the following folks who responded:
> Victoria DeVore <Victoria.DeVore@umpqua.edu>
> dersmythe@fastmail.fm
> cloper <cloper@crowncollege.edu>
> Jim Seymour <jseymour@linxnet.com>
> Alan Pae <alan.pae@gmail.com>
>
>
>   The suggestions I received included:
>   Create our own packages - see:
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/pkgadd.html
>
>   The PHP PEAR repository, specifically the clone of the PERL Net::LDAP 
> module at:
> http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP
>
>   Consider the amount of vonerability announcements for PHP - one responder 
> is considering going from PHP to PERL.
>
>   Request a PHP/LDAP package from Steve of sunfreeware.
>
>
>   Steve from sunfreeware has said he can create an experimental package for 
> PHP/LDAP that we can test - we're going to do this, and also look into the 
> other PEAR options
>
>
>   Thanks to everyone who responded, and so quickly.
>
>
>   MY initial question is below:
>
>
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:58:59 -0700 (MST)
> From: Ivan Fetch <ifetch@du.edu>
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: PHP with LDAP support, as a package
>
> hello all,
>
>
>   We're looking into switching from PERL CGIs to php, and wondering what 
> other Sun managers are doing for php (prefer 4, but am willing to consider 5) 
> with LDAP support, as a package?  This will be for Solaris 8 and 9, mostly on 
> sparc.
>
>
>   We are currently using SunFreeware for our other packaging, however the 
> SunFreeware php5 package does not offer an LDAP option.  I see BlastWave does 
> offer php with LDAP, but we would probably need to move our Apache2 package 
> to BlastWave as well.  Of course I can compile php from source (link against 
> Sun's directory server 5.1? or Open LDAP?) but it would be nice to 
> standardize on packages.
>
>
>   Rather than get stuck in analysis paralysis, I figured I'd inquire with 
> folks here and see how others are managing their production php on Solaris. 
> Thanks all for any feedback,
>
> Ivan Fetch.
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